Wednesday, 10 August 2016

Eco-Consciousness and the Power of Green Anarchy

“For
thousands of years we’ve been ruled by kings and emperors… ideological
demagogues like Hitler, Mao and Stalin… lately by bureaucratic elites,
financial engineers and omnipotent corporations… now we’re going to start
calling the shots from below.”

Like
Pavlov’s dogs salivating at the sound of a dinner bell, we keep going
through the motions of being contained and domesticated humans within an unhealthy
and unsustainable system while the world falls apart around us. We’re
conditioned and controlled, habituated and hardened, terrorized and tyrannized.
And the craziest thing is that we allow it to happen, unaware of our true
power.

Subconsciously
we give into our indoctrination, just trying to get through the day. We call it
“being civilized.” We call it “modern.” We call it “normal.” We call it “being
responsible.” We call it “being well adjusted,” conveniently forgetting the
words of Krishnamurti:
“It is no measure of
health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

The question
becomes: how do we inform a sick society to the level of its sickness, when it
subconsciously denies the red pill of truth while comfortably swallowing the
blue pill of deception? In short: how do we triumph over cognitive dissonance?
How do we empower others? Wisdom just goes in one ear and out the other. Humor
brings a temporary hiatus, but ultimately falls flat against practicality.
Non-violent revolution is too scary and the majority of people are too cowardly
to act. As H. L. Mencken surmised, “The one permanent emotion of the inferior
man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants
above everything else is safety.” Indeed. So what should we do?

By far the
most effective method of getting others to take notice of their unhealthy,
unsustainable ways, is to live and lead by strong and healthy example. Those of
us who are aware of the sickness of society must unapologetically step up and
reveal our own updated, healthy, sustainable lifestyles, and then hope that
people take notice. We can’t control people (that’s tyranny), but we can control how we act
toward people by not trying to control them with our power but rather trying to
empower them instead (that’s liberty).

So what does
an updated, healthy, and progressively sustainable lifestyle look like? It is
interdependent rather than merely codependent. It is eco-centric rather than
ego-centric. It is eco-spiritual rather than merely ego-religious. And it
practices Green anarchy rather than allowing a so-called authority to make the
rules and do what it wills to the people and to the environment. Let’s break it
down.

Interdependence
Over Codependence:

“It’s
only possible to see people when one is able to see the world as others see
it.”

As a
culture, we are excessively emotional and psychologically reliant on a failed
state
that vainly sets itself apart from the greater cosmos. The greatest failure of
our time is a depressed and dejected codependence. We’ve become an abstraction
of an abstraction, en masse. Caught up like rats in a Skinner Box cogging away
at the unsustainable clockwork of a failed experiment. A precious few of us
have gained the independent courage to strike out against our
inner-codependence, but the greater majority is still fully-reliant on an
unhealthy Goliath state to provide for them.

But
independence is not enough. In fact, too much of it can lead to rampant
narcissism and greedy “me-me-me!” type thinking. Sure, it’s far superior to being a
codependent cog blindly milling away in the clockwork, but it’s
vastly inferior to being an interdependent force of nature to be reckoned with.
And then there’s morality to consider. Unreconciled codependence tends to
become immoral because mass indifference leads to an unhealthy and
unsustainable social dynamic such as the system we have in place today.

Unchecked
independence tends to become immoral because greed and a
competition-first-cooperation-second mindset leads to an unhealthy and
unsustainable social dynamic such as the system we have in place today.
Authentic interdependence hits the Goldilocks sweet-spot by keeping the blind
comfort-junky rule-followers in line while also keeping the greedy
one-upmanship of overreaching power-mongers in check.

Eco-centric
Over Ego-Centric:

“How
are you going to teach logic in a world where everybody talks about the sun
setting, when it’s really the horizon rising.”

~Cal Craig

Our current
existential crisis is inexorably linked to our current ecological crisis. Everything is
connected (actually). The problem is we’re psychologically dissociated from
this understanding (perceptually). This is due in large part to a profoundly
ego-centric cultural conditioning that teaches narcissistic individualism over
self-actualized selflessness. Instead of teaching self-love, it teaches
self-importance. Instead of eco-centric interconnection with a vital cosmos, it
teaches egocentric disconnection between human nature and Mother Nature.
Instead of Self-as-world and World-as-self, it teaches self-against-self at the
expense of Self.

Here’s the
thing: We would not have an environmental pollution problem if we didn’t first
have a psychological pollution problem. Our psychological pollution problem is
a rampant psychosocial dissociation between nature and the human soul. This
must be rectified first. We cannot fix the symptoms without first healing the
disease. If we heal the disease, we fix the symptoms. If we heal the
psychological pollution, we fix the environmental pollution. And it begins with
turning an egocentric perspective into an eco-centric one.

Eco-Spiritual
Over Ego-Religious:

“As
the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse’s neck, and
trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the
divine animal who carries us through this world”

I’ve written
exhaustively on this subject. Here: Spirituality Vs. Dogmatic Religiosity; here: The Decimation of Church and State; here: Cracking the Cosmic Egg; and here: 7 Important Differences Between Religion and Spirituality,
to name but a few. Our ego attachment with outdated religious concepts has been
destroying the world (both human and non-human) for thousands of years. It’s
high time we got off the dead horse of religion. It’s high time we stopped
beating it to no end. Doing so just exacerbates violence. As Blaise Pascale
said, “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a
religious conviction.” Why is this? It’s simple: certainty. When we’re
“certain” about something then we put all their eggs into that basket, to the
extent that it becomes a part of our ego. Problems arise when someone comes
along and reveals that basket to be a folly. Cognitive dissonance sets in and
suddenly the “certain” person isn’t so certain and they defend their precious
certainty. Such defense inevitably spills over into violence. Psychology 101.

The main
thing to gather from this concept of eco-spirituality over ego-religiosity is
the vital importance of wresting the dictates of spirituality from both the
rigid ego as well as from dogmatic religions so that violence becomes less
likely. Personalizing spirituality while also integrating interdependently, is
vital to human flourishing. Especially since our flourishing depends upon the
world flourishing in turn. As it stands, our incessant ecological belligerence
and immoderate overindulgence is destroying the fundamental flourishing of the
world, and then we have the audacity to wonder why we (as a species) cannot
flourish in a healthy way (that is, in accordance with a greater cosmos that
makes or breaks us). In
short: we must make Nature our church, and Love our religion
spirituality.

Green
Anarchy Over the State:

“Anarchism
is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule
themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.”

What makes
the State wrong (unhealthy) exactly? The simple answer is: concentrated power.
Most of us understand that “power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts
absolutely (Lord Acton).” We understand this on an intellectual level, but then
we fail to fully rationalize it on a psychosocial level. But it affects us all
(Mother Nature included). Civics affects us all, especially the understanding
(or lack thereof) of power. As Malcom
Gladwell intuited, “There
comes a point where the best-intentioned application of power and authority
begins to backfire.”

Power is
directly proportional to wealth. In
our age “wealth” happens to be an abstraction of an abstraction that we call
money. It’s an abstraction of an abstraction precisely because
it is an agreed upon illusion of wealth that is based upon a secondary agreed
upon illusion of debt. Problems arise when this abstraction of an abstraction
grows perpetually and then doesn’t balance out with a finite planet with finite
resources. Our shit (both literally and figuratively) begins piling up too fast
for the planet to absorb it. And here we are: an overreaching man-machine of a
culture chewing up resources with reckless ecocidal abandon and then shitting
it out with ignorant and wasteful indifference.

Now enter
green anarchy. Green
anarchy transforms egocentric individuals (the State) into eco-centric and
interdependent forces of nature. How? By utilizing the power of
our independence for a
natural cosmic order rather than against it (interdependence). By personifying
Nature itself through our own eco-conscious presence. Green anarchy is
self-mastery in the face of masters, self-rule in the face of rulers, and
self-empowerment in the face of those who seek power over others; all while
embracing healthy, sustainable, moderate, and balanced values against the
unhealthy, unsustainable, immoderate, and unbalanced State. It’s a pissed-off
David strategizing eco-consciously and improving his eco-moral aim against an
immoral Goliath State.

Green
anarchy is a verdant fist crushing the glass house of an unhealthy culture,
revealing that nature and the human soul have always been connected. We’ve just
forgotten about it due to rampant nature deprivation and the egocentric
dissociation of church and state. Green anarchy gets power over power by
shattering the illusion of tyrannical power with the hard-earned truth of
authentic power: discovering a balance between nature and the human soul. It
doesn’t seek power; it empowers.
And thereby gains prestige. As Chief
Red Eagle stated, “Angry
people want you to see how powerful they are. Loving people want you to see how
powerful you are.” The Green anarchist is in love with freedom,
and so empowers others to be free.

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